Thanks for the "Vikingetidens Redskaper (Viking Age Tools) 1951". I have seen some pictures from it (some with very interesting blacksmith tools), but I never managed to find the exact source of those pages.

Thank you so much for the wonderful pictures and descriptions! The book of Kells makes it look like the shields aren't decorated to much, maybe a layer of leather for added protection, which could have evolved in to the Targe latter on.

It works in Germany, Britain and France and as far as I can judge from pictures in all other European countries...that is why I just don't understand why in Ireland everybody is saying "It won't work".